[T]he crowd remained fixed on their support of Mr. Sanders and not on the idea of defeating Mr. Trump. Over and over again they chanted, “We want Bernie. Bernie. Bernie. Bernie.”

The reaction from Mr. Sanders’s supporters was consistent with the anti-Clinton message delivered by demonstrators earlier in the day. Some pro-Sanders protesters took a harder turn on Monday, chanting “Lock her up” in an echo of the message of the Republican National Convention a week earlier, fueled by the resignation of the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.

This whole Russian consipiracy theory. Why do they think Russians would help Trump? Wouldn't they be more likely to help Bernie? Doesn't he share their governing philosophy? Didn't he honeymoon in the Soviet Union? Just sayin'

I enjoyed Trump's Town Hall today. He said he isn't going to pay the bill for the Hotel they used.

No way, no air conditioning, you don't get paid! His lip was all wet, and he was dying on stage.

Still, he did well, he covered all the bullshit topics that float the party.

What I didn't hear him say is his willingness to liquidate the FDA and the USDA leadership and downgrade them from the Cabinet. These people have destroyed Americas food system to pay back China for their loans that keep our printing presses working day and night.

Chinese apple juice, the chemical tainted juice, is being sold as any juice you want, and the food industry uses Chinese juice to make billions.

I love that disdainful Trump Look. It reminds me of George C Scott as Patton making an abhorrent look at the sloppy Unit that he is arriving at to be replacement General after its Kasserine Pass defeat.

Winners do not cut losers any slack.

And then there is Clinton Cash's revelation of the $750,000 bribe to the Clinton Gang from Ericsson Electronics for permission from Hillary to cheat on the world's Trade Embargo eagainst Iran.

Its all just still the first act, scene 2.Building dramatic tension. Also advertising for eyeballs. This may beat the Republican convention in viewers.Tonight there will be conflict, maybe. A woman will be unhappy, perhaps betrayed. Lovers will be separated.

By what Trumpian measure did Bernie Sanders "fold too early," given that he ran actively through the last primary, and given that Trump lambasted his own opponents for remaining in the race too long (all of them dropping out sooner than Sanders did)...?

A word of caution ~ as bad as the '68 convention in Chicago was, Humphrey still almost won and would have won if the campaign lasted one more week. And that convention was Aug. 26-29 over a month later. And this does not account for train wreck Trump ...

Whereas Nixon was a former (8) year v-p and well-versed in domestic and foreign policy.

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(8) years ago PUMA's said no way no how they were voting for Obama. Most, if not all of them, did.

Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble!

Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble!

Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble!

Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble! ~ Hillary's in trouble!

Althouse cons, please sit back and enjoy the majesty of the Dem convention in the city of brotherly love.

Will Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren get booed when they speak tonight? Will Hillary Clinton be greeted with "lock her up" chants when she speaks Thursday? This convention just got a lot more interesting.

Six times more apple juice was imported from China then they have orchards to make it. Makes you wonder how they get six times more juice from an annual crop?

The FDA and USDA say it's nothing to worry about, people aren't dropping dead in the streets!

Yes, but American agriculture is getting paved over.

I have to buy my tomato sauce in a carton from Italy because they don't pick the crop before it is ripe. American tomatoes are tasteless. They pick the tomatoes while they are green, so the bugs don't damage them. Profit over quality.

I don't think Bernie ever wanted the nomination, otherwise he would be fighting for it now. He has a good case- the nomination was in the bag all along with a super majority of super delegates going for HRC.

Never mind the FDA - I dream that Trump will use his inaugural address to announce he is immediately sending legislation to Congress to abolish the Department of Education, reduce the EPA to about 200 employees, and rescind, revoke and remove every entry in the CFR for the last 8 years. McConnell and Ryan may have coronaries on the spot.

"Lock her up!" Remember how the commentators and talking heads were whining about how awful it was when the Republicans chanted this in response to Christie's speech? Have I missed their whining about how awful it is for Democrats to say the same thing?

Did the Democrats think that the Red Guard Bernie-ites that so recently had been so disruptive to the Trumpites would just return to the Democratic fold & sit there like good boys & girls?

No, the Democrats sat by & watched while these clowns wreaked violence on their opponents, trampling on the 1st Amendment rights of their fellow Americans. "Well, Trump says some really extreme & divisive things".

Now, they're heckling the Dems, & shutting down speech they don't agree with under the Dems' tent. Oh, I guess it's because the Democrats are saying hateful & divisive things.

You think it'll stop with heckling? Just wait until they figure out they ain't gettin' shit out of HRC. Then you're gonna see some Bakuninist "Propaganda of the Deed". Yeah, baby!

No, never mind them. There are simpler and more practical policies. A conservative, humane law to make it a felony to accept a Federal salary while residing in DC or the States of Maryland and Virgina.

"This....is....just....AWESOME!!!" People, people, let's be careful what we wish for. This will boost the DNC ratings! This is better than reality TV! This will create sympathy for the Hildebeast! Then again: nah. This is awesome.

"This....is....just....AWESOME!!!" People, people, let's be careful what we wish for. This will boost the DNC ratings! This is better than reality TV! This will create sympathy for the Hildebeast! Then again: nah. This is awesome."

Trump will be first to tell you there's no such thing as bad publicity ...

1. Pace yourself. Boo only 100 times a day. Keep track like a pitcher's pitch count.2. Don’t be a one-person parade! When a Boo Wave is forming, join it.3. Use slogans. A few are ready-prepared: "Lock her up!" "I'm not with her" and "Up yours, establishment" (I prepared the last two). Invent some new ones on the fly. If they take traction, tweet them immediately.4. Eat a lot of beans.5. Use zen techniques. Greet with silence prepared applause lines, especially if the word “Trump” is in them.6. Wave Mexican flags.7. End each night with a master cheer: "Trump! Trump! Trump!" even if you don't like him. Why? Because nothing will cut to the heart of the Hillary/Wall Street Industrial Complex like this one word.Be safe! Be smart! Good luck! You have a lot of people back home cheering for you.

To step back from these Democratic & Republican scenes of chaos & view through a longer historical lens, what I think we're seeing here is the death of machine politics in the US. I think that new communications technologies have made the sharing of information that the party elites parceled out only to the inner circle both simple & impossible to contain.

I'm not saying what'll emerge on the other side is better, either. It may lead to a new decentralization or it may lead to a new & improved techno-savvy fascism (fascism always was techno-savvy, actually).

What will happen I don't know. You guys have gotta pay me more if you want me to see the future.

In a comment on another thread I asked whether Bernie Sanders actually led "his" voters. It didn't get much response, but it does explain what just happened.

Let me be more specific. To what extent are the Bernie Sanders voters voting for his policies and to what extent did his voters pull the lever for him as the 2016 ABH (Anyone But Hillary) candidate? The ABH phenomenon was pretty well documented in 2008, but seems to have become invisible in 2016. Why is that the case? Where did the 2008 Democrat ABH voters go if not to Bernie? Maybe a few changed their minds and were assimilated into the Clinton coronation, and some may have joined the Greens, but surely not all of them.

Although I am fully enjoying the chaos so far, Bernie couldn't pull votes from the minority communities that went heavily for Clinton. White people in Madison aren't going to win you the nomination.

You need votes from the African-American community. That's why the DNC was floating the "Atheist-Jew" narrative. Liberals in Madison might not care, but that's a deadly combo in certain demographics of the Democrat base.

Interesting Trump, who has no such animal at present, will be running against not one, but two well oiled political machines ie Clinton and Obama. Indeed, the best political machines in modern politics.

"We" can only wish him well as it might behoove him to start fundraising w/more vigor. Indeed, a few more trumpences in the campaign bank could be helpful.

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One of the reasons I thought Obama had no chance in 2008 was because of the Clinton political machine. But Hillary imploded. Now Obama is her biggest asset.

Stay tuned! as it appears Althouse cons are ever so more excited re: the Dem convention than they were about the Rep convention.

First, you can't prove a hypothetical. Second, there was that George Wallace problem. He got 13.5% of the vote, mostly Democrat.

Thirdly, Jerry Ruben and his confederates had no intention of influencing the Democratic Convention, they were out to destroy it and the political process generally. They weren't partisans of Eugene McCarthy, they were admirers of Leon Trotsky, and like their idol were out to destroy bourgeoise democracy in the name of "the People". In that aim they failed utterly because the only thing American viewers saw was chaos and a Democratic Party unable to cope with the chaos — the viewers came to despise both the rioters, the ham-fisted Richard J. Daley, and the feckless Hubert Humphrey. In contrast was Nixon, looking cool and in command. The voters saw Humphrey as Chamberlain, the well-meaning chump, and Nixon as Churchill, the tough-minded realist.

The disruptions happening to this convention come from a well-founded anger at corruption in the highest places in the Party, not a bunch of professional agitators.

NYT can't resist pushing a little: "She [Nina Turner] also rebutted protesters who were arguing that Mrs. Clinton’s handling of her emails while secretary of state showed that she was guilty of criminal activity, despite the finding by the F.B.I. director that she was not."I must have missed that.

Act 1 Scene 1 - The disgraced Duchess of Deencee is driven off by the enraged peasants.Act 1 Scene 2 - Prince Bernie meets his retainers, who are mutinous, unhappy about his reconciliation with the hated Queen HilaryAct 1 Scene 3 - Queen Hilary in an interlude with her lady in waiting, Countess Huma; interrupted by urgent word of defeat on the Pennsylvania marches by the Trumpish hordes. The kingdom is beset by enemies without and rebellion within. ...

On the state of the drama - I need a romantic foil for Countess Huma. The obvious choice is Queen Hilary herself, though that is a bit modern. Her husband certainly wont do. Oh heck, I'll go with Hilary. I think it would work better as an opera actually. Big duet in Scene 3. Also need a character among the rebels for the Propaganda of the deed business.

Comic relief - the Duchess of Deencee, The cuckolded husbands King Bill and Count Anthony

"""Blogger coupe said...I have to buy my tomato sauce in a carton from Italy because they don't pick the crop before it is ripe. American tomatoes are tasteless. They pick the tomatoes while they are green, so the bugs don't damage them. Profit over quality.American consumers are suckers.7/25/16, 3:56 PM"""

He has never followed a big truck overflowing with ripe red tomatoes on Highway 99 East of San Francisco.

Further, shiloh, could you quit pretending that a weaker United States, with more people on the dole, fewer workers, more international turmoil and a smaller, less capable military is a conservative problem.

This is not a psycho-drama, you insipid fool. It is a country that has been weakened institutionally. It is a country with less wealth that is more susceptible to events. FFS, quit pulling for "your team" and pretend to give a shit about the country.

Such good advice, it's always easier to counsel others isn't it? But then, I'll bet you've had lots of counseling. All kinds of counseling. (Were they ever able to explain to you WHY you are like you are? Or did you palm your stelazine and escape first?)

Bless you, Shiloh. Bless you so much! But do tell, does it hurt to be so false and rotten inside?

Act 1 Scene 1 - The disgraced Duchess of Deencee is driven off by the enraged peasants.Act 1 Scene 2 - Prince Bernie meets his retainers, who are mutinous, unhappy about his reconciliation with the hated Queen HilaryAct 1 Scene 3 - Queen Hilary in an interlude with her lady in waiting, Countess Huma; interrupted by urgent word of defeat on the Pennsylvania marches by the Trumpish hordes. The kingdom is beset by enemies without and rebellion within."

Yes, Sanders was a proxy for ABH. ABH formed part of Obama's winning primary coalition in 2008. Several months ago- probably sometime after New Hampshire, but before Super Tuesday, I pointed out that Sanders had no chance to win the nomination because he couldn't secure all of Obama's primary base- specifically, Sanders couldn't keep Clinton from reclaiming the votes of African Americans- voters she lost in 2008 for obvious reasons.

Like Mike, I don't think they will follow Sanders into suddenly being enthusiastic supporters of Clinton. Surely a great majority will vote for her in November, but a good portion of them will either vote third party, or more likely simply sit it out.

One could do that providing there was exit polling during the primaries.

However, eyeballing the demographics of the states won by Clinton and won by Sanders which held primaries as opposed to caucuses, I would estimate Clinton won 90%+ of the African-American and Hispanic vote everywhere, and about split the white vote with Sanders in the South, while losing the white vote everywhere else to Sanders.

As it turns out, there is exit polling data for most of the primaries at CNN prior to California. I overestimated Clinton's draw of Hispanic voters- she seems to have won about 70%. Otherwise, what I wrote is roughly right.

Although I think responding to Shiloh is a waste of time I did yesterday because I had some factual material that I thought he should see and ponder. It was contradictory to his interpretation of a headline and taken from the actual text of the story. I heard nothing from him - no acknowledgement, no explanation of his interpretation, just absolute embarrassed silence. I lost what little interest I had in him then.

A large part of Bernie's support are people who won't simply do what Bernie asks them to do but who had serious problems with the idea of Hillary getting rewarded with the presidency for all her venality. At this point they see her and Trump as both corrupt and dangerous, and having their suspicions confirmed that corrupt Hillary also had the DNC leaning for her only made it worse.

If she loses, this will be why. She couldn't find a way to stay clean for a couple years to get elected president--because a Clinton is a Clinton, and corruption is all they know. The one silver lining to a Trump presidency would be finally crushing that grafter couple's scam.

I did yesterday because I had some factual material that I thought he should see and ponder. It was contradictory to his interpretation of a headline and taken from the actual text of the story. I heard nothing from him - no acknowledgement, no explanation of his interpretation

Shilo is here to disrupt. His agenda is to try to make us believe that Trump has no chance, give up, stay home, so that the Democrats can make up some ground in state level elections, where they have gotten slammed. In four years there will be a census year election, meaning whoever controls the state houses controls the House for the next ten. He knows Hillary is a corrupt liar, has has admitted as much many times here. He is just trying to make lemonade. The problem is that his tactics are all wrong, but that's his problem, not ours. We just find his selling out his values for Hillary immensely entertaining.

A word of caution ~ as bad as the '68 convention in Chicago was, Humphrey still almost won and would have won if the campaign lasted one more week.

The claim that the election was close is rewriting history. It depends on so many factors that a week wouldn't have made a hill-of-beans difference. Every "what if" in favor of Humphrey has a "what if" against him. Truth is, Humphrey got clobbered. Even if all the electoral votes for Wallace had gone to Humphrey, the latter would have still lost to Nixon by 64 electoral votes!